Announcing New Fellows

Announcing New Fellows Peter Stebbins Craigja p ETER Stebbins Craig., J.D., was elected a Fellow of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania by vote of the Board of Directors of the Society at its meeting on 10 December 1991. An attorney specializing in transportation law, he holds a B.A. from Oberlin College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He is a recognized authority on the history and genealogy of the settlers of New Sweden on the Delaware and their colonial descendants.. Through the use of previously unconsulted manuscript sources in libraries and in the Royal Archives in Sweden, he has established the precise origins of many of the earliest European colonists of the Swedish settlements in southeastern Pennsylvania, western New Jersey, Delaware, and Cecil County, Maryland. A small sampling of his numerous genealogical publications include: "The Yocums of Aronameck in Philadelphia, 1648-1702," National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 71 (1983) (with Henry Wesley Yocum); "The Stille Family in America, 1641-1772," Swedish American Genealogist, fi ( 9 86); The Family ofNils Laisson Frande (Friend), (1988); and "Captain John Finney's Company of Philadelphia Militia, 1704: Biographical Notes of Members," Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, 36 (1990) (with Jane Gray Buchanan and Jeffrey L. Scheib). He recently completed a six-part series, "The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware," in the Swedish American Genealogist. A Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, he received a certificate of appreciation from the Swedish National Commission of New Sweden in 1988 for his historical and genealogical contributions to the 350th anniversary celebration of the founding of New Sweden. In addition to the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, his numerous memberships include: the National Genealogical Society; the genealogical societies of Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey; the historical societies of Delaware, Maryland, New jersey, and Pennsylvania; the Swedish Colonial Society; the American Swedish Historical Foundation; the Swedish American Historical Society; and the American Historical Association. 285 286 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Annette Kunselman Burgert A NNETTE Kunselman Burgert was elected a Fellow of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania by a vote of the Board of Directors of the Society at its meeting on 2 June 1992. The proprietor of AKB Publications, she is an incumbent Director of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. She is widely known for her research into the origins of eighteenth-century German-speaking immigrants to America. She has identified the original homes of well over 2000 Germanspeaking immigrants, most of them to colonial Pennsylvania. A sample of her numerous genealogical publications include: Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-Speaking Lands to North America, Volume 1: The Northern Kraichgau ( 1983) and Volume 2: The Western Palatinate ( 1986); Westerwaid to America: Some 18th Century German Immigrants (1989) (with Henry Z. Jones, jr.); "Palatine Origins: A Bibliography of Source Materials Containing Places of Origin of German, Swiss, and Huguenot Immigrants," The Palatine Immigrant, 2 (1977); and "Bartholomai Kuntzelrnann and his son Philip Kuntzelmann: 1741 Immigrants," Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, 36 (1989). A Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, she received an Award of Merit from the National Genealogical Society in 1984. In addition to the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, her memberships include: the National Genealogical Society; the Pennsylvania Chapter, Palatines to America (of which she is a vice president); the German Genealogical Society of America; the Pennsylvania German Society; and the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society. Honorary President John Howard Platt, Jr. OHN Howard Platt, Jr., former president of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, was elected an Honorary President of the Society at the J annual meeting on 24 Nardi 1992 in recognition of his past services to the Society. A member of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania for more than 20 years, he served as President of the Society from 1986 until 1991. He served as head librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania from 1970 to 1982. He is currently executive director of the Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.